Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures

We investigate the common assumption in applied research that reporting errors are negligible in variables where there is no clear incentive for misreporting. Using major medical operations, we find high misreporting rates, but the coefficients of their predictors remain unbiased.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Suziedelyte, Agne ; Johar, Meliyanni
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 121.2013, 2, p. 163-166
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Measurement error \| Health \| Socio economic status

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General ; I1 - Health ; I2 - Education
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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